Word: wagnerism
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...high priest of Democratic pollsters, Lou Harris, who conducted a survey purporting to prove that Morgenthau stood a better chance against Rockefeller than any other available Democrat (TIME, Sept. 7). President Kennedy approved of Morgenthau's candidacy. So did New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...Democrats convened in Syracuse, it became painfully evident that Morgenthau still needed a large vote bloc to win the nomination on an early ballot. And the most swingable bloc belonged to U.S. Representative Charles Buckley, the boss of The Bronx. This was downright embarrassing : after all, Bob Wagner had won reelection in 1961 on his promise to oust all of New York City's borough bosses, and of these Buckley was the sole survivor...
...first things first. Now, Wagner badly needed Buckley-and Buckley was happy to satisfy that need. Just a few hours before the convention balloting began, Buckley announced that he was throwing all but a few of The Bronx's no delegate votes to Morgenthau...
That should have been that. But it wasn't. Inevitably, Buckley's move gave Morgenthau's three active opponents a chance to raise a cry of "bossism." At the same time, it enraged some delegates who had supposed that Wagner really meant it when he vowed to fight to the death against Buckley's brand of political feudalism...
Home Run Mistakes. Born 30 years sooner, Runnells might well have been a candidate for baseball's Hall of Fame. A scientific hitter in the mold of Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, Runnells smacks clean line drives, rarely swings at a bad pitch. He steals an occasional base, is a superb buntsman and a meticulous fielder. One mistake he rarely makes: hitting home runs. "When I get one over the fence," he says, "I'm doing something wrong," and in twelve seasons Runnells has cleared the fence only 46 times. "I was born to hit to leftfield...